Re: adding desktop files to misc packages
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:17:51PM +0200, Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:54:40AM -0400, Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org> wrote:
>> >> Absolutely *wrong*.
>> >>
>> >> Gnome and KDE are targeted primarily at desktop users, not servers. If,
>> >> as a desktop user, I install a graphical app on my machine, I *expect*
>> >> to see that app in the main menu. The place where I put important
>> >> and/or frequently used apps is on a panel/toolbar.
>> >
>> > If you install the python interpreter on your machine, do you also expect it
>> > to appear in the main menu ?
>>
>> No, why do you ask? The python interpreter isn't a graphical
>> application. It also doesn't have a menu entry, so there's nothing to
>> hide.
>
> You obviously never looked at the Debian menu.
How do you come to that conclusion? On the contrary, I use it
frequently (there's other menu in my WM).
But from Marvin's sentence (which I think is right)
,----
| If, as a desktop user, I install a graphical app on my machine, I
| *expect* to see that app in the main menu
`----
you cannot conclude on his (or my) expectations regarding python, because
python is not a graphical application.
In case you are in fact interested in the unrelated question "Should
non-graphical applications have a menu entry?", here's my opinion: In
most cases I think they shouldn't. All those interpreters in
Applications/Programming are a good example for executables which IMHO
don't need a menu entry.
There may be cases, though, were a menu entry makes sense. In
particular for programs which usually need their own terminal, anyway,
and are likely to stay open for a while (e.g. mutt). Selecting
appropriate settings for the terminal used is a different issue...
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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